WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:07.440 I am here to just call our mission team forward because I promised you last 2 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:11.919 week that we were going to pray us out this week. So last week 3 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:15.880 we took our offering, and this week we are this. We leave on 4 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.719 Wednesday. So if you're on on the mission team, I know that quite 5 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:21.600 a few aren't here this morning. Come on up, line up here, 6 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.039 Connie, Dwayne, yup, yup. Here we do. Here we go. 7 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:31.640 We have eight of us. We did shrink by one because Dale Rummel 8 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:36.119 is not going to be able to be with us. He injured himself last 9 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:41.240 week at the church picnic. Let me just tell yeah that church picnic was 10 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:47.359 crazy, right, So we are down one. So we're gonna have to 11 00:00:47.399 --> 00:00:51.640 work double hard, all of us. So we have a lot planned, 12 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:56.200 We've got a lot on the docket, and we we have a it's going 13 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:03.960 to start with a twenty nine hour fly day tinnerary. That's why we need 14 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.920 prayer. We need your help. Twenty nine hours. I've you know, 15 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.719 I've never spent that long trying to get to Uganda, but that's what it 16 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:12.640 is these days. So we're gonna We're just we just got a lot to 17 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.959 do. We got it. We got amazing things. Danne and Joe are 18 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.439 going to be speaking at the pastor's conference there, so we just need to 19 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:26.599 pray over them that they have mighty mighty downloads for that whole there's gonna have 20 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.239 somewhere between three and four hundred pastors. So these guys are gonna rocket, 21 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:36.000 They're gonna do just They're gonna bring the word, They're gonna bring the spirit. 22 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:42.439 Connie's gonna be sewing, No she has She's gonna have a pedal sewing 23 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:45.599 machine because they don't have electric ones there. I just I sprung that news 24 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.920 on her the other day. She's like, what, So that's gonna be 25 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:55.359 great for her. Sophia and Sandy and I and Debbie and Dennis, we 26 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:00.400 are all headed down to a medical outreach. So just pray, just pray. 27 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.319 We got so much to do. Would you reach your hands forward to 28 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.280 us and pray for traveling mercies. Father, God, I just ask you 29 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.639 right now, thank you so much for this honor, this honor, and 30 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:13.039 this privilege to do this for you a father and God, I just ask 31 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:16.280 you right now to just settle upon us. Lord, give us grace and 32 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:23.479 mercy on those four flights to get us there. Lord, every landing, 33 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.080 every takeoff, Lord, four coming back, that's eight. Just think about 34 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.199 that, people. God, I just ask you right now you'll give us 35 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:32.360 grace and mercy. Let us sleep when sleep hits us. Lord, that 36 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:36.960 just life would be good. Lord. I thank you that no sickness will 37 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.319 come upon us, no injury would come upon us. That we are kept 38 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:46.680 in your hand, Lord and Father, every word out of our mouth, 39 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.800 every person we touch. Lord, I just ask you right now for just 40 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:53.719 a mighty outpouring of your holy spirit, mighty mighty outpouring of your holy spirit 41 00:02:53.719 --> 00:03:00.199 in Jesus name. Amen, hallelujah, Thank you so much. Apparently so 42 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.719 last week, now you guys can be seated. Last week, I told 43 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.919 you that I had a dream. Did I tell you about that? Was 44 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:08.879 that your first service or second service? I said that in I was only 45 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:13.719 one service. So y'all got it right. So I told you I ad 46 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:15.360 a dream, and I never told you my dream. Do you know what 47 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:19.319 my dream was? My dream was that when we took the offering last week, 48 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.800 that you gave one hundred and three thousand dollars. So I was like 49 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.719 dancing in my dream one hundred and three that So you know, that's it. 50 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:30.280 We didn't get quite one hundred and three thousand. So if you want 51 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:31.719 to, you know, add to the pile, that's perfectly fine. But 52 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.520 I just wanted to, you know, if you were all waiting all week, 53 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.680 you know, hanging by that thread of what was the dream, I 54 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.599 want to make sure you knew that. So anyway, God blessed you, 55 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.120 and we're gonna have a great time. And we won't be here next Sunday, 56 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.319 but you will. We'll send a video. All right, So here 57 00:03:47.360 --> 00:04:00.800 you go, sir, Thank you love. Let's stay in prayer for the 58 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:05.280 word. Yeah, we're excited to go, and we're excited to come back. 59 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:14.800 Hallelujah. Oh but it'll be awesome. It'll be fun. We will 60 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:21.199 represent and God's moving. Amen, fun stuff, Kingdom's growing. Father. 61 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:27.040 We thank you for your word today. Thank you that your present by the 62 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:32.600 Holy Spirit to lead us into the fullness of Jesus. We welcome you. 63 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:41.879 We will give you, transform our hearts, transform our thoughts. Thank you, 64 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.160 give you the praise for it in Jesus name. Everybody said, Amen, 65 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:55.399 you may be seated. We've been talking about restoration and I'm going to 66 00:04:55.480 --> 00:05:00.879 jump right into the word because of time, and so oh, I don't 67 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:05.120 want to. I don't want to be labor things. But we've been talking 68 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:14.839 about our restoration theme and that God has restoration and mind, and of course 69 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:17.839 we want you to we want you to have that in your heart. Because 70 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:24.199 God is optimistic, he's not pessimistic. God is excited about the future. 71 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:28.680 He's not depressed about the future. God has a good plan for us already 72 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:33.240 and still and he hasn't changed his mind about that. And every day is 73 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.959 a new day. And it doesn't matter if you live in Babylon. God 74 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.480 can show up, delivery out of fiery furnaces, shut them out of lions. 75 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:48.079 So never never evaluate how life's going to go based on where you live 76 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:58.279 in this realm, because your citizenship is that's right, you're already a citizen 77 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.920 of heaven. Right. Your resources flow out of heaven, and your authority 78 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.399 flows out of heaven, and your knowledge flows out of heaven, and every 79 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:11.759 answer and every solution flows out of Heaven for you, right, So we 80 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.879 can't be depressed. Everybody say it with me. I can't be depressed. 81 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:19.560 I refuse to be oppressed. Come on, come on, come on, 82 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:23.439 come on, say it like you believe it. I can't be depressed. 83 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:30.519 I refuse to be oppressed. Amen. Amen, Amen. And so we've 84 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.920 been talking about this growing kingdom from the first advent to the last advent. 85 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.600 Jesus came right, not two thousand years ago. We celebrate that, and 86 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:44.800 there's this progression of kingdom growth. And so the kingdom is growing. It 87 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.959 started with just a grain, with just a seed. John twelve twenty four, 88 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.160 started with the seed. But in the end, it's going to be 89 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:55.879 many sons and daughters. Right in the end, it's going to be an 90 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:00.480 overwhelming kingdom. And in the process, He's restored us so that he can 91 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.079 restore the Earth. It's the sun. The earth is waiting for the sons 92 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.079 of God. The earth is waiting. So it's the Sun's being restored first, 93 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:14.680 then the earth, because the Earth is waiting for the sons of God 94 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.079 to be restored, the sons of God to live in sonship. Right, 95 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:24.800 Yeah, And so this is exciting stuff. All this is exciting stuff. 96 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.600 And even though we're imperfect, God's using us. Even though we're imperfect, 97 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:34.240 God is doing great things through us. And this is the most strategic organization 98 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:39.639 and organism on the planet. This is the most powerful, the most strategic, 99 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:46.920 the most life changing organization and organism on the planet. You're not a 100 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:50.600 church at tender. You're a world changer. Come on, say it with 101 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:56.399 me. I'm not a church at tender. I'm a world changer. You're 102 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:01.959 a world changer. Amen. Amen. And if you haven't changed the world 103 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.279 yet, just say that a few times over yourself begin to shift. You're 104 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.160 thinking that you're not. You know, a church attender can be a spectator. 105 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.480 You're another spectator. You're a game changer. You're not a spectator. 106 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.160 You're a church attender. Could be a consumer, but you're not a consumer. 107 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:24.199 You've been consumed and so you represent Jesus everywhere you go because you've been 108 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:31.120 consumed consumed by him. You have one obsession that you might obtain why He 109 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:35.440 obtained you, that you might find out why he found you. You have 110 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.279 one obsession, and together we come and we form the church. The church 111 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:41.519 is a bunch of stuff. We've talked about a lot of this stuff in 112 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.559 the past. A church is the ecclesia, right, and the ecclesia borrowed 113 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:52.000 from the Greeks and the Romans. The ecclesia terminology, the ecclesia is a 114 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:56.159 legislative body. They bring the government of God into the government of the earth. 115 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.559 Yeah, so we are we are the ecclesia. But he also said 116 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:09.559 that the church is those who are restoring David's Tabernacle. So that's another aspect. 117 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.639 So the church is a lot of stuff. The church is restoring David's 118 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.080 tabernacle. So we're a people of worship, crazy worship. We're a people 119 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:30.799 of exuberant, undignified, devoted praise in the worship, prayer, sacrifice. 120 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.080 That's the church David's Tabernacle. We are patterned after David. He's named after 121 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.600 David. And so that's one aspect of the church is that we live to 122 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:46.519 restore the glory that existed in David's tabernacle and to restore it in the earth. 123 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.960 Yes, the church is also a body, right, the Bible talks 124 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:58.399 about that a bunch. The church is a body, and the church comes 125 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:01.360 together as a body. This is part of why we come together. Part 126 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.960 of why we need each other is because we build one another up. We're 127 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:11.159 attached to one another. We strengthen one another in love, We sup we 128 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.159 supply love to one another. The body builds itself up in love and we 129 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:20.159 all have different functions. We all have different functions, and so that's part 130 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:24.039 of why we come together and why we flow together, and why we go 131 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.000 together, and why we function together and why we go further together is because 132 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.480 we're a body. And I've never seen my arms stay in bed when I 133 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:39.720 got up. My arm goes with me all day, My foot goes with 134 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.120 me all day, My ears go with me all day. Aren't you glad 135 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:48.759 your body doesn't? Aren't you glad you don't have protesting body members? That 136 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.759 would be a little embarrassing, right, And so that's one aspect of us. 137 00:10:54.120 --> 00:11:00.240 And we're the most important organization and organism on the planet and what God 138 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:05.919 is doing through us. God is doing all of this through us. But 139 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.840 but there's a structure to it. I maybe you know, there's a structure 140 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:13.320 to it. There's a structure to the call to restore. There's a structure 141 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:20.480 too. And he's and he's even said he's even given his offices effusions forces. 142 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.559 He distributed his offices in the body. So that's interesting. There's a 143 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:31.159 there's structure to the body. And so there's pastors and profits and teachers and 144 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:37.320 so He's He's given all of these like there's there's actually organization right to the 145 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.320 Body of Christ, those things that we you know, the things that we're 146 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:46.919 enjoying today, even in a building with with people functioning and people in different 147 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.320 roles, and we had the we had ap staffs, we had David's mighty 148 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.039 singers and musicians up here. What would this gathering be like if we didn't 149 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.279 have David's Mighty musicians and singers up here? Right? How many of you? 150 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.320 How many of you could sense the Holy Spirit here during the worship? 151 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.360 I could. I ran out to the restroom. Wasn't a lot of annointing 152 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:13.759 in the four year so I feel sorry for the youth sitting out there today. 153 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.000 There was less annointing in the bathroom. But when I came back in, 154 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:20.679 I felt I literally felt the annointing as I came toward the front. 155 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.080 This is why I always want to sit in the front. As I came 156 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.600 toward the front, the anointing was stronger. I started getting goosebumps as I 157 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:31.000 came toward the front. I'm serious, I don't make this stuff up. 158 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.039 I'm like, oh, I got a weepy right here. I got all 159 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.679 weepy. I'm like, oh, my goodness, Holy Spirit, you're so 160 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:41.879 good to us that you would calm and abide with this in our worship, 161 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:46.720 that she would calm and dwell with this in our worship. But these are 162 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:56.840 privileged things. All of these privileged things crazy goofy odd interesting, But the 163 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.200 way it works in a tangible third dimension in the world, they all take 164 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:07.759 money. They all take money, they all take money, they all have 165 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:13.440 to be supported. So God determined. This isn't interesting. God determined even 166 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:20.519 with the first priest and the first priesthood. This is interesting with the first 167 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:30.120 priest and the first priesthood, that that first priest and the first priesthood would 168 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:37.480 be supported by the first member of the family of God, Abraham with ten 169 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:43.240 percent of his injuries. Isn't that a crazy thing? So way back here 170 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:50.399 in Genesis fourteen, Abraham is called out of err. Everybody say, err, 171 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.639 aren't you glad you didn't live there? Abraham is called out of error 172 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.919 when he was the pagan. He's called out of err to the land I 173 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:05.639 will show you. And so he's led to this land and he gets to 174 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:09.759 the most He got to a land like Eden is what he got to the 175 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.639 Lord led him right to a land like the Garden of Eden, and then 176 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.120 he said, lift up your eyes as far as you can see. This 177 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:22.600 is the land I'm going to give to you and to your descendants. And 178 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.919 so he comes. This is Genesis chapter twelve. Genesis chapter twelves. Over 179 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:31.399 here, this is chapter twelve. And so God calls him, and God 180 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.960 ask him to come into a covenant relationship with him, and God says, 181 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.320 I will bless you. And God says, I will make your name great, 182 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.200 and through you will all be blessed to That's Genesis chapter twelve, the 183 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:56.279 first act of the first act of Abraham's prosperity, the first recorded act of 184 00:14:56.320 --> 00:15:03.679 his increase after Genesis twelve four Genesis twelve, there is no We aren't told 185 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:07.759 one thing about Abraham or Abram was his name in the beginning. Remember, 186 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:13.559 his name was changed because God said, I'm going to add the consonant of 187 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.600 my name to your name, because you will you will be known as a 188 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:24.399 father of many nations. So Abram became Abraham because God added a portion of 189 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:28.159 his name to his name, and he became known as the father of many 190 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.279 nations. Before he had a child. But way over here. All of 191 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:39.080 this we aren't here. We don't hear anything about Abram giving any wealth, 192 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:45.919 any money to God. There's no claim on Abram's increase. And yet he 193 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:50.440 was doing pretty good. He had three hundred and eighteen servants. Is that 194 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:56.440 pretty good? Pretty good? But when we get over here to Genesis chapter 195 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.759 twelve and God asked him to come into covenant, then we see the first 196 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:07.440 thing that happens in Genesis chapter fourteen. The first thing that happens on the 197 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:18.200 first increase of Abram is that Abram connects with a priest, a priest called 198 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:26.720 melk kaesidek anybody here in milk kesideck old time Christians, king good, all 199 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.840 the gray hairs in the building. Okay, So in Genesis chapter fourteen, 200 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:37.039 he wins this crazy battle defending Lot because Lots his nephew that came with him, 201 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.720 and Lot was stolen away with all of his stuff, and so he 202 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:44.759 takes his servants and he pursues five Kings, and he overtakes five Kings and 203 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.879 beats the snot out of him. Then he steals all of the plunder, 204 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:51.039 not only the plunder that was taken, but everything he took, all the 205 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:53.639 booty. He took all the plunder and then he and as he when he 206 00:16:53.679 --> 00:17:00.120 comes back, he comes back and connects with this priest called milk Keasident Jenesis 207 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:11.519 chapter fourteen. And in the presence of Melkesedic, they have communion. Melkesitic 208 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:19.359 serves him bread and wine. They have communion. It's a sign of covenant. 209 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:25.599 Bread and wine are a sign of covenant. The wine represents blood spilled 210 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:30.759 blood. The bread represents a broken body. That's really what a covenant says 211 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:38.319 is that I will go to the death for you. So he it's recorded 212 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.119 Genesis chapter fourteen, and it says that as he came back, he gave 213 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:47.759 ten percent to Melkesedic, ten percent of all the plunder, gave it to 214 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:56.720 Malkkesident. Yeah, we can go there later. Wait for me. Thank 215 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:03.440 you, though I appreciate him went for him to kill it. I'll come 216 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:08.480 back to it. I'll come back to Genesis fourteen. We do want you 217 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:22.119 to think I'm telling the truth. It's the first act of giving. Where 218 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:27.039 do I want to go with all this thinking about you know, thinking about 219 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:33.519 restoration. What if restoration if frustrations through the church, what if restoration is 220 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:40.160 hampered or hindred if the church is not prospering, Like, what if the 221 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:48.559 people of God are not prospering as they could? Right? Does you know 222 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:51.640 if the people of God are not prospering as they could, then that means 223 00:18:51.680 --> 00:19:00.240 the church isn't prospering as it could. Right. Abraham was, this is 224 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:04.079 joyful giver. This is this first time he's given. He's this crazy joyful 225 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:11.640 giver because God promised to make him rich. Did you know that God had 226 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:19.839 promised to set him apart and make him rich? And so giving ten percent 227 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:26.240 to God seemed like a little bitty thing, Like, if God's going to 228 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:27.640 make me rich, what in the world, why would I want to hang 229 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.759 on to ten percent? Why not just recognized him that he gave me the 230 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:37.240 victory of this battle, and that he gives me everything. But then he 231 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.079 was offered by the Kingdom Sodom. He was offered everything, all of the 232 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.839 plunder. Don't even give it back. Don't give it back to us, 233 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.920 don't give it back to our cities. Don't give it back everything that was 234 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.119 taken, everything that you brought back, all of the booty, all the 235 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:57.680 plunder. You keep it all. And Abram said, no, I can't 236 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.039 I've had a conversation with God. I can't keep it. I've had a 237 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.359 conversation with God. See, God already promised that he would make me rich. 238 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.559 And far be it for it ever to be said that you made me 239 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:17.079 rich. Let's go there, let's read it, Michael. You jumped, 240 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:22.839 You jumped the gun. Let's jump the gun. Go Genesis chapter were okay? 241 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:33.480 Genesis chapter fourteen, verse seventeen. After Abram returned from defeating ked Lamore 242 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:37.640 and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet 243 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.279 him in the valley of Chevab, that is the king's valley. Then Melkesedeck, 244 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:44.480 king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was the priest 245 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.240 of God most hie. By the way, this was a Christophanie. How 246 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:52.440 maybe you know what a Christophan he was. So we're told that Malkzedek had 247 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:00.480 no lineage. We're actually told that Melkzedek was actually a pre existent Christ. 248 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:07.640 That actually, when Abraham was called into relationship with God, God sealed the 249 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:17.759 relationship with a blessing by an actual visitation of Christ. So that's who this 250 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:19.440 was. By the way, he was the priest of God most High, 251 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.960 and he blessed Abram, saying, blessed be Abram by God Most High, 252 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.960 creator of heaven and Earth. And praise be to God Most High, who 253 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:32.200 delivered your enemies into your hand. Say it together with me, delivered your 254 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:37.519 enemies into your hand. Now this is interesting. I mean, we don't 255 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.200 know. We don't know that before mentioned history of Abram. But what we 256 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.279 know is that from the moment he went into covenant with God, from then 257 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.119 on, God was going to give him victory all over all of his enemies. 258 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.839 He gave the Abraham victory over all of his enemies even when Abram lied 259 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:59.279 all you mean, Abraham wasn't perfect. Yeah, he wasn't perfect, and 260 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.480 he lied about his wife one time to a Beameleca king, and God still 261 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:07.359 showed up and honored his word to Abram. Even though Abram failed on his 262 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:21.079 word to God. Praise be to God Most High, who delivered I'm just 263 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:25.160 saying that God, from the moment you came to Christ, God is the 264 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:30.160 one giving you your victories. God is the one giving you prosperity. God 265 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.599 is the one giving you increase. God is the one giving you wisdom. 266 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.119 God is the one who's giving you overcoming power. God is the one who's 267 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:40.799 giving you grace. God's the one giving you life. God's the one who's 268 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:44.799 stas saying you. God's the one who's giving you breadth from the moment you 269 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.440 came in the covenant with God. It's God who gave you those victories. 270 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:59.559 But this is interesting. Then Abram gave him Melkezedek a tenth of everything. 271 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.759 Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, give me the people. Just 272 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.920 give me the people back, all the people that were stolen and you brought 273 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:08.599 them back. Give me the people back. But you keep the goods for 274 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.960 yourself, the rest of the goods. But Abram said to the King of 275 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.400 Sodom, with raised hand, I have sworn on an oath to the Lord 276 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:23.160 God Most High. Oh, they had a conversation. There was the conversation, 277 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.119 with raised hand, I have sworn on an oath to the Lord God 278 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.759 most High, feeder of heaven and Earth, that I will accept nothing belonging 279 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:36.400 to you, not even a thread or a strap of a sandal, so 280 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:42.559 that you will never be able to say I made Abram rich. Isn't that 281 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:49.079 interesting? Isn't that something I want you to see? Something I want you 282 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:56.079 to see the promise to Abraham was I'm going to make you rich. I'm 283 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:03.039 gonna make you rich. I'm going to make your rich. I'm gonna make 284 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.839 you rich. Not your cunning, not your proudness, not your cheating, 285 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:11.960 not your lying, not your deceiving, not your skill, not your knowledge, 286 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:22.000 not your dissalinesty, not your fraudulent means. I'm gonna make you rich. 287 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.319 Lean on me, trust me, walk with me, Give me my 288 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:33.799 tenth. I'm gonna make you rich. That's a crazy thing. I think 289 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.640 these things are powerful to talk about, and you know, when it always 290 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.480 comes to the preaching time, I've always got twenty pages of notes and two 291 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.359 minutes to say it, you know. But these things are important to talk 292 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:52.640 about because I think that we are we as a people, we don't realize 293 00:24:52.680 --> 00:25:00.559 what God wants to do for us, and so we struggle with tithing. 294 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:06.599 We struggle like in a body like ours, which is a very devoted We 295 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:10.599 got prophetic ministry, deliverance, ministry, outreach ministry, food bank ministry. 296 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:18.440 This is a very devoted ministry. Only about half of us tithe in your 297 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:26.759 average congregation in America, only twenty percent of the people tithe. Now I 298 00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:33.319 didn't say tip. Lots of Christians give a tip. Lots of Christians give 299 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:37.079 probably one hundred percent give a tip. But I'm talking about a ten percent 300 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:44.519 tide. A tithe is ten percent pre tax, pre tax giving. It's 301 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:47.799 the first fruits. It's not the second fruits, the third fruits. It's 302 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.599 the first. Fact is Leviticas look at Leviticus twenty seven thirty. I think 303 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:55.440 we haven't Leviticus twenty seven thirty. And I wouldn't even go there. I'll 304 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.720 just let's go to the street, and well, can you find it like 305 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:03.720 a tide of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit 306 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:11.279 from the trees, belongs to the Lord. Did you hear that it isn't 307 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:17.960 even my money. It's not even my money. It belongs to the Lord. 308 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.200 It is holding to the Lord. Whoever it would redeem it, any 309 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.039 of their tithe must add a fifth to the value of it. Did you 310 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:30.519 know that that under the Mosaic law, God said, if you want to 311 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:33.039 hang on your tide for a while, you owe me twenty percent interest, 312 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:42.279 add a fifth to it. Is that crazy? You would only owe a 313 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.680 fifth to something that belonged to somebody else. See, it doesn't belong to 314 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:48.920 you. The ten percent doesn't belong to you. It actually doesn't belong to 315 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:53.680 you. I'm trying to answer the question this morning, because I know that 316 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.519 we struggle with this a little bit. Is that is the tide the valid? 317 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.119 We've had so many arguments about it. You can just go online and 318 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.640 there's all sorts of people saying that the tithe is not even valid, that 319 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.599 it's moot, it's nothing. We should even discuss that the tithe has no 320 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:14.960 place in the New Testament church because because the tithe was a part of the 321 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:18.480 law, and Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law for us, and when 322 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.720 he filled the requirements of the law for us, then we are no longer 323 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:29.160 under the law. And if we're not so, then we were not under 324 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.920 the penalty of violating the law because He's delivered this from the curse of the 325 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:38.359 law. Right and the tithe all belongs to the law. And I'm trying 326 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:44.519 to answer some of that for us today because in any church there's people struggling 327 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:48.640 with that argument. I've struggled with that argument. Maybe Frank struggled with it 328 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:52.680 when he had to give five dollars to the church. What in the world. 329 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:59.839 Okay, well, all right, that's what I should do. Fast 330 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.440 word. Five years later, he's abounding with blessings. I don't know if 331 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:11.400 anybody that's sprung up out of incarceration faster and better than Frank Cashier home. 332 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:21.279 I just don't. So answering this question, I want you to see that 333 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:26.119 in answering this question, Yeah, tithing was spoken of in the law, 334 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:32.640 and tithing was made like super clear in the law. Like there's all sorts 335 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:34.720 of stuff about tithing in the law, like the one we just read out 336 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:38.480 of it, Leviticus twenty seven. But it didn't start with the law. 337 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:44.799 The law was added open it here. The law was added four four hundred 338 00:28:44.839 --> 00:28:49.119 and thirty years after Abraham received the promise. So Abraham received the promise, 339 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.680 then there's instruction. There had to be instruction about tithing, because he's the 340 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.720 father of faith, and he gave ten percent in faith, and faith cometh 341 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:07.720 by, so he must have heard something. So joyfully he gives unto this 342 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:12.640 swan who's called him out of paganism and promised he's going to give him a 343 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:18.359 great name, bless him and through him, everybody else is going to be 344 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:25.079 blessed. Right, So then four hundred and thirty years later the law is 345 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:27.160 added. But when the law was added, God didn't change his mind. 346 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:30.960 It wasn't like tithing was a new thing. Actually, he was just clarifying 347 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:36.680 what he started with. And what's really weird is that he started this way 348 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:42.160 on purpose, so that when he introduced the priesthood under the law, which 349 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:48.880 was a new priesthood to watch over the Mosaic law. There the new priesthood 350 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:57.400 introduced. But he started this way because the Bible says that Levi and Aaron, 351 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:02.519 those who watched over the priest it and collected tithe from the people, 352 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:12.400 they actually gave a tithe to Christ through Abraham. So Paul says, the 353 00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:18.599 validation of the Mosaic law and the right of the Levites and Aaron to collect 354 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:23.599 the tithe from the people is not because I say so, It's because they 355 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:32.160 already tithed to mel Keesedic through Abraham, because they were in the loins of 356 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:42.279 Abraham when Abraham tithed to Christ. Is that crazy? So it wasn't like 357 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.480 God changed his mind. And so then we get over here, right, 358 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:52.799 Let's get over here. Galatians three nineteen, we could go there. Galatians 359 00:30:52.799 --> 00:31:04.359 three nineteen. This is Christ and he's restoring us to Abraham. He fulfills 360 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:15.839 the requirements of the law and restores us to Abraham. Follow So, yeah, 361 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:22.920 I'm no longer under Moses or the law of Moses. But this is 362 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:33.880 weird. The promise was higher than the law. The law was only the 363 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.480 old law was only given because these people four hundred and thirty years later weren't 364 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:47.279 led by the Holy Spirit, so they had to have laws written. But 365 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:52.799 when we get back over here and we're restored to the promise, then the 366 00:31:52.880 --> 00:32:02.200 laws are written on our heart. So actually, this coming back under Abraham 367 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:08.920 and the shift of priesthood from Aaron and Levi back to melk Kezedek. By 368 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:14.720 the way that it's a shift of priesthood, Hebrews makes it super clear that 369 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.440 when we come back under Jesus, the priest Jesus is a priest in the 370 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.119 order of melk Kezedek. It's a shift of priesthood and a shift of the 371 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:30.319 law. We go back to the law of the Spirit of the life of 372 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.119 in Christ Jesus. We go back to the law of the Spirit, the 373 00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:40.119 law of promise. Right but it's a higher law. It's a higher law. 374 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:45.240 What's that mean. It doesn't mean that we would give less. It 375 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:53.279 means that we would give with a heart of giving. See when I lost 376 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:57.119 the spirit four hundred and thirty years later, when I did, we go 377 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.759 to Glacians three nineteen. You had it up for a long time. Why 378 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:05.039 would law given? He was added because of transgressions. Oh, transgressions increased, 379 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:10.960 lack of the spirit. Transgressions increased until the seed of whom the promise 380 00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:19.720 referred to. The promise wasn't just Isaac. The promise was Yahia until the 381 00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:25.079 promise would come. So the law was given because of an increase of transgressions. 382 00:33:25.319 --> 00:33:28.599 We gotta make this clear. We gotta spell it out. This is 383 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.960 God's money. Give it back to him. Spell it out. You know 384 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:44.160 why. Because they were doing this. The law was epitomized by deeds with 385 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:50.160 no heart. Yeah, I'm not gonna kill my neighbor, but I wish 386 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:53.480 I couldn't. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, but I'll tell you I'm 387 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:55.880 not gonna lie about that. I'm not gonna lie. I'd like to lie. 388 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.039 Yeah, I'm not gonna cheat, only because they're watching, right, 389 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:06.079 now. But as soon as they aren't watching, I'm gonna cheat. The 390 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:12.400 law was epitomized by doing good with no heart in it, and so under 391 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:22.159 the law they were bringing their tithe, but it was it was a stingy. 392 00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:28.239 There was no heart in it. There was no heart in it under 393 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:37.559 the law. When we're restored to Abraham, this is why, this is 394 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:45.679 why Paul says God loves a cheerful giver. When we're restored to Abraham, 395 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:51.199 were restored to knowing. Oh, oh my goodness, I'm a child of 396 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:55.119 Abraham. Let's see. Let's see he's making he's making my name great because 397 00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:59.960 he's making his name great. And I've hooked up my name to his name, 398 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.039 and he's blessing all people through me, and and he's promised to make 399 00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.960 me rich. I don't need the shock and job. I don't need the 400 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.840 trick and scheme. I don't need to lie. I don't need to deceive. 401 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:21.039 He's gonna make me rich. He's gonna make me rich. You don't 402 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.880 believe me, None of you believe me. You don't believe that part to 403 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:31.159 you. You've been deceived. You've been deceived. God wants to pour out 404 00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:37.320 upon you riches. Remember the Lord, your God. It is he who 405 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:44.519 gives you the power to create wealth, that he may confirm the covenant that 406 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:51.039 he swore to Your Father's God wants to bless you be on your wildest dreams, 407 00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.360 but he's gotta work on your heart attitude and his love. As our 408 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:06.519 heart attitude is still the mosaic heart, we have to get rid of the 409 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:15.000 mosaic heart. If our heart attitude is Let's see, I brought in forty 410 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:19.880 nine hundred and fifty six dollars, I'm gonna bring four hundred and ninety five 411 00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:30.199 point six. That's what I'm gonna bring, not a pennymore if her heart, 412 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:37.679 If her heart is hard, and we're bound up in legalism of the 413 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:47.119 heart, then we're not making the connection with Abraham, who received the promise, 414 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.400 who walked by faith, who heard from God, who joyfully gave, 415 00:36:53.880 --> 00:37:04.159 and would not let any unclean thing declare that it made him rich. No 416 00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:09.760 unclean thing, no covenant relationship with Sawdom, or any unclean thing can declare 417 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:17.000 will ever declare that it made Abram rich. Only that which has been birth 418 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:22.239 of God. We'll make Abram rich. I'm talking about you. I'm talking 419 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:27.679 about you right now. I want you to make this association that God wants 420 00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:30.840 you to know. He wants you to he wants to bless you. That's 421 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:34.159 what these things are all about. The tithe and he needed a way. 422 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.599 He needed a way to care for his flock. He needed a way to 423 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.519 care for the body. He needed a way to grow the church in a 424 00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:44.480 third dimension world. So He's ordained all of this to be this way. 425 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:49.880 But then he said, I'm going to attach crazy, crazy promises to it. 426 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.800 I'm literally going to blow them away. This is what God has done. 427 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:59.440 We have to see that any requirement like this moves us into privilege that 428 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:07.440 nobody else has. Like if you're if you're an unbeliever today you're with us 429 00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:12.800 and you've never come to know the Lord, Like this isn't you don't even 430 00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.480 have to worry about this. This is not for you. You're like the 431 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:22.000 pre Abraham state. But you're also that's a bummer because you're you're not walking 432 00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:27.079 in the privilege of this either. This is a privilege like when God declared 433 00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.800 over Israel. Remember there's sixty nine other nations. There's seventy nations on the 434 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.679 planet. When God declares over Israel. I want you to rest on the 435 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.960 seventh day. Oh Bomber, we can't work. I'm so mad. I 436 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.239 wanted to work, but at Bad Bad I wanted to work. Mad, 437 00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:46.639 mad, Mad? Are you kidding me? If the privilege God's trying to 438 00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:51.000 show them something, I'm gonna give you a day of rest. Every other 439 00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:53.760 nation is going to work their tail off just to make it. They're barely 440 00:38:53.800 --> 00:39:00.760 going to get by fighting against the curse and the thorns seven days a week. 441 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:02.639 They will have no rest. They're gonna work seven days a week. 442 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:06.760 But for my kids, I'm going to tell you something. Here's the privilege. 443 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:14.480 You're gonna have a day off. See, sometimes we want to see 444 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.400 the things that God calls us to do as a yoke constead of a privilege, 445 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.840 as a burden instead of a relief, instead of a blessing. We 446 00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:29.199 want to see it as a hardship. But that's not the way it works. 447 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:32.559 Everything Kingdom is to give you peace, it's to give you relief, 448 00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:38.480 it's to help you, it's to lift burden off of you. You're only 449 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.760 going to work six days a week, and I'm going to give you more 450 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:46.440 than everybody else on the planet. In six days than they have in seven. 451 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:54.719 That's the principle. The tithe is the same way. You're gonna give 452 00:39:54.760 --> 00:40:00.239 me ten percent, and I'm going to give you more, more blessing, 453 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:07.400 more peace, more fulfillment, more riches, more outstanding, crazy stuff. 454 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.920 I have a whole list of these blessings. Let's put them up. This 455 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:14.480 is what the message is supposed to be on today. Gives supposed to be 456 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:23.199 on the ten blessings. But I realized that we can't really talk about the 457 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:31.719 blessings fully if half of us don't even believe tithing is valid. About half 458 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.360 of us in this church do not believe that tithing is valid. Did you 459 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:40.639 know you haven't even given an offering until you've actually tied. You can't give 460 00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:45.320 an offering until you're tied because the tithe is the Lord's. So if you're 461 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:52.960 just giving a little bit, calling it an offering, it's not an offering. 462 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.639 You can't give an offering to lefter you've given a tithe. The first 463 00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.119 ten percent is the Lord's after that, and you can give an offering that's 464 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:01.800 called a free will offering. In other words, he it belongs to the 465 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.280 first ten belongs to the Lord. I don't have a choice about that that 466 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.039 belongs the Lord. I'm just gonna come with faith and celebrate. He gave 467 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:15.400 me victory. But the other ninety percent that's mine. He gave me mine. 468 00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:21.000 He gave me ninety percent to manage. I'd like to give him an 469 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.159 extra five. Oh, that's called the free will offering. Let's call with 470 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:32.400 the love offering. Here's ten benefits, here's ten promises. The ninety percent 471 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.199 comes under a sanctified blessing. Number two, inherit the spiritual riches of the 472 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:43.800 kingdom. You want the heavens to open up with wisdom and revelation. Can 473 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:50.239 you believe that your money is actually associated with your understanding in the kingdom? 474 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:54.320 It is number three. Be entrusted with greater management responsibility. He that's faithful 475 00:41:54.360 --> 00:42:01.079 with five dollars will be faithful with much. Be given property of your own, 476 00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:05.480 because if you treat his property good, he's going to give you your 477 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.920 own property. Come under an open heaven of opportunity in favor. Receive Father's 478 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:14.280 protection against depth and loss. Become enviable. All the nations will call you 479 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:21.199 blessed. Become a delight a delightful land, a delightful house, enjoy long 480 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:30.840 life with fulfillment and escape the oppression of fear and greed. The stand this 481 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:37.880 morning, and that's Jeff to come to the platform. Chef's got a testimony. 482 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:43.840 I think he felt what I've felt many times last week, and he 483 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:45.039 shared it with me this week at prayer, and I want him to share 484 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:52.320 it with you while he's coming and just going to share. Today, I 485 00:42:52.400 --> 00:43:01.199 called the day's sermon test drive drive. We're gonna go test a Tesla. 486 00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:09.159 We're gonna go test rind of a Tesla. They're on sale, so we're 487 00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:16.119 gonna go test drive a Tesla. If I'm calling a test drive because Malachi 488 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:22.679 three ten through twelve says, test me, test me, put me to 489 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:28.320 the test, test drive tithing. But lord, I'm only making a thousand 490 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:32.880 a month. Test him in this, But lord, I'm only making six 491 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.199 hundred dollars every two weeks. Test but lord, I'm only I'm only getting 492 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:43.239 a social Security check. Test me in this, but Lord, I'm making 493 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:49.400 ten thousand a month. Test me in this test drive. Put a test 494 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:54.960 drive. See if I will not open the windows of heaven. Right. 495 00:43:55.280 --> 00:44:00.880 So I'm asking you today we're gonna take a second offering for missions, but 496 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:05.880 we're not going to do that. We're gonna just open up an offering after 497 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.800 Jeff Jeff talks, and I want the elshers to come though and prepare and 498 00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:21.840 I want to I want to ask you to embrace a tithing challenge. And 499 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.800 that only applies to some of us, right, But for some of us, 500 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.360 if we've just been tipping God, or we haven't dove all the way 501 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:35.440 in, or we really haven't calculated what a true tithe is, or we've 502 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:38.440 been kind of fudging the numbers, or we just you know, we've been 503 00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:45.719 dealing with an ideal with it. I've dealt with fear. I've looked at 504 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:52.360 those numbers and got nervous. I'm with help. Tithing in the past, 505 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:58.840 had to repent, had to get us straightened out. Whatever it's kind of 506 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:02.840 been hitting you that has kept you from really embracing this. I'm just asking 507 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:07.719 you allow Holy Spirit to bring faith to your heart. Allow him to bring 508 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:13.760 faith to your heart, because there's faith in the atmosphere this morning that will 509 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.920 shift you up into a new realm, a higher realm in Him, a 510 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:25.039 higher realm and Him. So Karen, my wife and I have been tithing 511 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:30.960 for decades, and maybe there's times where it kind of slipped into the routine 512 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:37.159 legal side. And so this last month, some deals came together all at 513 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:42.480 once, and so my income was triple what it normally is. And so 514 00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.920 it came time to write the check, and I just felt this little tinge 515 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:51.960 of do I really want to do this? And it's like, you know, 516 00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:53.400 what else could I do with that money? You know, all these 517 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.880 thoughts run through your mind. And so wrote out to check, brought it 518 00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:04.519 to church, let it go into the bucket as it came by, But 519 00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:10.000 my hand was kind of gripping it a little bit. But as Pastor Dwayne 520 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:15.559 taught the message last Sunday, this faith began to rise up in my heart 521 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:22.280 and my hand just opened so where I could release that gift to Heaven, 522 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:28.440 release back to Him what's his. And now I'm I'm feeling the connection again. 523 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:30.280 So I'm back. We're back open to His wisdom, his love. 524 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:36.280 And when we give our tithes to the Lord with our whole heart, that's 525 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:42.679 our Heart's the step ladder that takes it to Heaven, and where unrighteous mammon 526 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:46.760 is converted into the love of God, that ends up pouring back out on 527 00:46:46.840 --> 00:46:52.159 all of you and makes the work of the Kingdom of God happen. It's 528 00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:54.880 the love of God that builds the Kingdom of God, and we can convert 529 00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.599 unrighteous mammon into the love of God going out to people. So anyway, 530 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:05.039 I just got free in that service. As I heard the word and faith 531 00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.960 came. I was just able to open my hand and let that tithe. 532 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:12.880 It was already in the basket, but my heart wasn't attached to it yet 533 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:20.360 until I got my hand open. Thank you for teachings, Thank you Lord 534 00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:28.000 for this beautiful congregation. Thank you Lord, and thank you Lord. We 535 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:34.320 are we are fulfilling our covenant with you. We are we are entering into 536 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:42.440 this love life with You, where where we can transfer unrighteous mammont into worship 537 00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:49.639 to You, and where it's your love pouring out back on us. So 538 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.480 I thank you Lord, that that all of us would be able to taste 539 00:47:53.519 --> 00:48:00.199 this and experience it and know that we're we're safe and protected. Even when 540 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:05.800 the math says you have less, we have less, our heart tells us 541 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:12.400 we're enriched with the blessings of Heaven and we're well provided for. Lord, 542 00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:16.119 We thank you for that Jesus name, keep your heads about just for a 543 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:22.119 minute, eyes closed, just from an heads about, just from a I 544 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:28.320 just want to talk to your heart a little bit. It's where ever you're 545 00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:30.119 out. I want you to just trust the Lord. Not a mission's offering 546 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:36.920 this morning, but just even if it's a gift this morning, that just 547 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:40.480 says, I want to make this right in my life. I want to 548 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:44.639 believe God. I want to trust God with my whole heart. I want 549 00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:52.559 to be a hundred percent in I want to be generous in this. I 550 00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:55.400 want you to grab an envelope, or Michael, are the four ways up 551 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.199 on the screen. Put the four ways on the screen, Rob an envelope 552 00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:07.920 this morning, open your phone, do something. But that's if the lug 553 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:17.760 Lord is. If the Lord is tugging in your heart, he's saying, 554 00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:29.199 test me, test me, test me, test me. I was thinking 555 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:37.360 this morning, I'm so glad that I've never retreated on this, because I 556 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:43.239 was thinking, you know, sometimes it takes a while for Ecclesiastics. I 557 00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:45.119 think it's eleven twenty five says cash your bread on the water, and after 558 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:54.280 many days it will come back. You know. I hate to say do 559 00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:58.119 a ninety day challenge. I hate to say, let's do a thirty day 560 00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.400 challenge. I hate to put a time I'm limit on it, because over 561 00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:07.760 time what has happened is that God has done the miraculous with so many of 562 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:15.280 us, with Joe and Sandy calling him, Melissa, Craig and Claire, 563 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:19.280 just so many of us here that I know and I'm close with, you 564 00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.559 know, just various ones that have been part of the body. The Lord's 565 00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:30.280 done miracles where you know, we look at we look at what we have 566 00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:32.079 had for an income, and then we look at what God has done with 567 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:36.280 us, and it doesn't make any sense at all. The only thing that 568 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:42.159 makes any sense is that God has done miracles and he wants to do He's 569 00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:45.440 not a respecter of persons. He doesn't love me more than he loves you. 570 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:57.800 So it's not really a ninety day challenge. It's kind of like I'm 571 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.679 in. I'm a lifer. Jeff and Karen, we're lifers. We're gonna 572 00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.639 be lifers. But I'm not going to be a lifer without my faith. 573 00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:07.760 I'm not going to be you know, if the Lord never blesses me, 574 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:13.960 I'm good. No, that's impossible. He that comes to God must believe 575 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:17.039 that he is and that he is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him. 576 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:21.639 He doesn't even want me to say, if he never blesses me, 577 00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:25.239 I'm good. What he wants me to say is he's gonna bless me. 578 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:42.880 Are you kidding me? This is the God of blessing. So my invitation 579 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.679 is, just do something to mark this day, do something to seal, 580 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:51.880 and to mark this day as this is a day where I've decided I'm going 581 00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:55.320 to go all in with the first fruits. I'm gonna go all in with 582 00:51:55.400 --> 00:52:06.679 the first ten percent. Just mark this day, set it apart, and 583 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:09.119 then let it be the beginning of an of not just a test drive, 584 00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:25.679 but a complete agreement with Father and his kindness over you, Alder, We 585 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:30.719 thank you for him. We seal this day before you. She's this name. 586 00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:37.280 Amen. Let's your church love you. Let's worship as we go